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Shiny Quarter

There might be a chance I think I am better than you. There might be a chance I am pulling your strings. So faint, so lightly that you'll just think I'm only holding you up. But I am tugging them. Go ahead, reach up over your skull and give them a tug, you'll feel the resistance of my hold. I don't mean to be malicious or cruel. I really am trying to do things better for you, for the betterment of both of us. You're used to hearing that excuse, but as I said. I might just be better than you. Smarter than you. More obsessed. I will be selfish with my manipulations, but that only shows how clever I am, how magnificent I am. I twist and change you to my bidding, for my selfish ambitions.. And yet you still get everything you want and need. How many tricksters and silver-tongued devils are capable of admitting to that same feat? I don't want your thanks, I don't want your attention. I just want to be left alone, left to do as I please, left to make the world a b...